Girls Weekend Day 1

Last weekend, I went to Disney to run (actually I do more of a wog... walk/jog) in the Disney Princess 5K.  This was the second time I went and I was blessed to have three of my best friends from childhood to go with me.  Chris and I have known each other forever!  You can read more about her and our first 5K here.  Julie and I were best buddies from 6th  grade on.  Our houses were behind each other.  At one point, we tried to create our own morse code with flashlights and signal to each other at night from our windows!  When I moved to Sparta as a sophomore, Dreama was best buds with Chris and they just took me right in.  We were known as the Three Amigos!  They were both a grade ahead of me in school and I actually had kids ask me my senior year if I had failed!  Everyone thought I was in their grade!  Julie and I reunited as an awesome duo when she came to the same college I did for a semester.  That was the best!!!  We didn't get into any trouble at all.  No sirree!  :-)  These are the girls that know me inside and out.  We all arrived at the condo on Thursday night and talked.   There was a lot of making fun of our first kisses, first boyfriends and all the silly stuff!  We stayed up until 2:30!

The next day, we picked up our race packets and then hit Margaritaville for lunch.  Coconut shrimp and a margarita for me!  Yummy!  The others had a drink called the Pink Cadillac.  If you ever need a yummy sweet drink, go for this!  It was awesome!

Me, Chris, Dreama, and Julie

Pay no attention to the bite already taken out of the shrimp before I remember to take a picture for my blog!!  

Right above our heads was the booth where the DJ plays music and the Margaritaville channel on Sirius is broadcast.  

We then went to Universal Studios where we rode all the rides we could get in.   We hit the Simpson's ride which was really neat.  They use a lot of virtual screens and technology.  You felt like you were racing around and doing loops, but you never really moved!  Then on to Men in Black where we zapped aliens, and rode Jaws.  Jaws was a little on the cheesy side, but a must do.  We went to see Twister,  and I am sad to say that I was very disappointed.   All was made up though when we rode the Revenge of the Mummy and the Rip Ride Rockit!!  The Rip Ride Rockit was awesome!  You pick your own music to play while you ride.  I got my roller coaster groove on with the Black Eyed Peas song Pump It.  I love coasters, but I was tad bit nervous as we were about to get on.  Oh my word!!!!  It was killer!!!  Thank goodness we all loved coasters and everyone had a ride buddy!

Yeah, baby!!  I rode it!!!  This isn't even the whole coaster!  There is a lot more to the right side of the picture!

We headed back to the condo and ate gyros in the hot tub.  It was an early-ish night for all of us as we had a race to run the next day!